Time to get the cogs turning!
Homework pack – term 3
Name:_____________________
Year:_______ Form:_________
Teacher:___________________
Instructions
Each week your teacher will tell you
exactly which tasks to complete.
Always write your homework in
your planner.
Comprehensions and extended
writing should be completed in your
homework book.
Late homeworks lead to detentions.
Section one: Apostrophe
To be completed by:
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What do I need to complete?
Spelling test 1
Read the information page on social networking
Complete the Re-tweet task
Read page on apostrophes
Complete the task on apostrophes
Complete the task on Don’t and Doesn’t
New vocabulary M and N
Reading comprehension: Wuthering Heights
Self Assessment: What do I still need to practise from this section?
Spelling test 1
You will be tested on your spellings in every
literacy lesson.
You are expected to get at least 17/20 right each time. If you do not manage this
you will need to re-take the test at another time.
Read
Advise
Advice
Affect
Effect
Commonly misspelt words
Allowed
Aloud
Bought
Brought
Breaking
Braking
Chose
Choose
Cloth
Clothe
Topic specific words
Analyse
Write
Cover and write
Social networking has unleashed a new trend: bad grammar.
We are now surrounded by social media, it is everywhere we look. Most of us like to
follow our favourite celebrities but what kind of role model are they to us if they
can’t get their spelling and grammar right? In every section of this book there will be
a chance to tell these celebrities how to do it properly. You will need to do two things:
1. Explain to this celebrity what they need to do to make sure they don’t make the
same error
2. Re-write their post ensuring that it is grammatically correct.
I have done
this one for
you.
Miss Killick
@MissKEnglish
@KimKardashian I noticed in your recent tweet that you have made a few
grammatical errors. You have missed out the word ‘are’ in your first
sentence and have added too many question marks, only one is required to
show this is a question. You would also need a capital letter for ‘Coast’ as it
is a proper noun. Well done for using an apostrophe correctly.
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Miss Killick
@MissKEnglish
@KimKardashian here is how you could re-write this text correctly – West
Coast are you ready? Tonight’s episode is intense! Tune into E!
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The rules about apostrophes
You will have seen in booklet one a little bit about how to use an
apostrophe but now we are going to really practice and get those rules
embedded into all our work.
You never use an apostrophe when you are talking about a plural, for example,
you would have one shoe and two shoes – it would never be shoe’s.
You use an apostrophe in omission – to omit something is to take it away, this is
your root word – in this case, when you omit one or more letters. For example,
do not becomes don’t – you use the apostrophe in the place of the o here.
You can also use an apostrophe to show posession, before an s to say that one
subject of a sentence owns the next subject in a sentence. For example,
Katie’s pencil case – this tells us that Katie owns the pencil case.
Exception to the rule: If the person or subject already ends in an s then the
apostrophe comes after the s and no extra s is added. For example, James’ pile
of books.
Task:
Can you
correct these
errors?
Task: With a green pen, go through the written
work below and correct it using our marking
scheme. Look out for the incorrect use of
homophones and apostrophes. Don’t forget the
rules you have learnt.
When my workdays over, and I have closed my notebook, hidden my pen, and sawed
hole’s in my rented canoe so that it cant be found, I often like to spend the evening
in conversation with my few surviving friend’s. Sometime’s we discuss literature.
Sometime’s we discuss the people who are trying to destroy us, and if theres any
hope of escaping from them. And sometime’s we discuss frightening and troublesome
animal’s that might be nearby, and this topic always lead’s to much disagreement
over which part of a frightening and troublesome beast is the most frightening and
troublesome. Some say the teeth of the beast, because teeth are used for eating
children, and often they’re parents, and nawing on there bones. Some say the claw’s
of the beast, because claws are used for ripping things to shreds. And some say the
hair of the beast, because the hair can make allergic people sneeze.
But I always’s insist that the most frightening part of any beast is it’s
belly, for the simple reason that if you are seeing the belly of the beast it mean’s
you have already seen the teeth and the claw’s of the beast and even the hair of the
beast, and now you are trapped and there is probably no hope for you. For this
reason, the phrase “in the belly of the best” has become an expression which means
“inside some terrible place with little chance of escaping safely,” and its not an
expression one should look forward to using.
Set this writer a target to move forward with their work.
What do they need to improve on specifically?
or
When we use don’t or doesn’t
we use an apostrophe to omit
the letter o. Without the
apostrophe we have two
separate words:
Do not
This seems simple enough but
we often put the wrong word
into our writing which means
it is grammatically incorrect.
When in doubt, use the words
without an apostrophe, this
way you will make sure it
makes sense.
Does not
Task: Complete the sentences below using the
correct word – don’t or doesn’t.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
The cat _____________ want to go out in the rain.
__________ step in the mud and then come in the house with
your trainers on.
It ____________ matter if you _________ get the right
answer, as long as you try.
Life is short, ____________ let it pass you by.
I _________ want to get up early in the morning.
I don’t believe that Romeo is cruel as he ________
intentionally fall in love with Juliet.
Curley’s Wife ______ deserve to be called names because she
is mistreated by Curley.
He __________ like me because I am better football player
than he is.
Word (Adjective)
Letter
M
Definition
Sentence (using your word):
Synonyms
Antonyms
Letter
Word (Adjective)
N
Definition
Sentence (using your word):
Synonyms
Antonyms
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Reading comprehension : Read the extract and
answer the questions in as much detail as possible.
The narrator, Mr Lockwood, is here visiting Wuthering Heights. He was prevented by
heavy snow from leaving for home but Heathcliff, the bad tempered owner of
Wuthering Heights is unwilling to let Lockwood stay the night. A servant takes pity on
him, and shows him upstairs, where he finds an unused room in which he decides to
spend the night. He is unable to sleep because of noises outside the window and
disturbing dreams.
This time, I remembered I was lying in the oak closet, and I heard distinctly the gusty
wind, and the driving of the snow; I heard, also, the fir bough repeat its teasing sound,
and ascribed it to the right cause: but it annoyed me so much, that I resolved to silence
it, if possible; and, I thought, I rose and endeavoured to unhasp the casement.
The hook was soldered into the staple: a circumstance observed by me when awake, but
forgotten. 'I must stop it, nevertheless!' I muttered, knocking my knuckles through the
glass, and stretching an arm out to seize the importunate branch; instead of which, my
fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand! The intense horror of nightmare
came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most
melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in--let me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, struggling,
meanwhile, to disengage myself. 'Catherine Linton,' it replied, shiveringly (why did I
think of Linton? I had read Earnshaw twenty times for Linton). 'I'm come home: I'd lost
my way on the moor!' As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through
the window. Terror made me cruel; and, finding it useless to attempt shaking the
creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the
blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes: still it wailed, 'Let me in!' and maintained its
tenacious grip, almost maddening me with fear.
'How can I!' I said at length. 'Let me go, if you want me to let you in!' The fingers
relaxed, I snatched mine through the hole, hurriedly piled the books up in a pyramid
against it, and stopped my ears to exclude the lamentable prayer. I seemed to keep
them closed above a quarter of an hour; yet, the instant I listened again, there was the
doleful cry moaning on! 'Begone!' I shouted. 'I'll never let you in, not if you beg for
twenty years.' 'It is twenty years,' mourned the voice: 'twenty years. I've been a waif
for twenty years!' Thereat began a feeble scratching outside, and the pile of books
moved as if thrust forward. I tried to jump up; but could not stir a limb; and so yelled
aloud, in a frenzy of fright. To my confusion, I discovered the yell was not ideal: hasty
footsteps approached my chamber door; somebody pushed it open, with a vigorous hand,
and a light glimmered through the squares at the top of the bed. I sat shuddering yet,
and wiping the perspiration from my forehead: the intruder appeared to hesitate, and
muttered to himself. At last, he said, in a half-whisper, plainly not expecting an answer,
'Is anyone here?' I considered it best to confess my presence; for I knew Heathcliff's
accents, and feared he might search further, if I kept quiet. With this intention, I turned and
opened the panels. I shall not soon forget the effect my action produced.
uestions
1.
2.
3.
How does Bronte build up fear in the passage?
How is this reflected in the way the narrator acts and talks?
Why did Lockwood have to break the glass?
4.
What are the definitions of these words:
5.
6.
Tenacious
Importunate
Casement
Ascribed
Unhasp
Discerned
Doleful
Obscurely
What is the narrator’s attitude towards Catherine Linton? How do
we know this?
Extended writing task: Using the image write a paragraph
describing East Riddlesden Hall. Think about your choice of
adjectives.
Section two: Semi-colon
To be completed by:
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What do I need to complete over the next two weeks?
Spelling test 2
Complete the re-tweet task
Read the semi-colon page
Complete the semi-colon task
Complete the second semi-colon task
New Vocabulary: O and P
Reading comprehension: Never Let Me Go
Self Assessment: What do I still need to practise from this section?
Spelling test 2
You will be tested on your spellings in every
literacy lesson.
You are expected to get at least 17/20 right each time. If you do not manage this
you will need to re-take the test at another time.
Read
Course
Coarse
Quiet
Quite
Commonly misspelt words
Sites
Sights
Sauce
Source
Threw
Through
Irrelevant
Irrelevance
Anthology
Apostrophe
Topic specific words
Atmosphere
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What is a semicolon? And how do we use
one correctly?
A semi colon can be used in several ways but it must
be used correctly. We are going to look at how and
where to use a semicolon correctly.
The main way to use a semicolon is to join two main clauses together.
The stars shone brightly in the sky. The sky was a dark, inky blue.
You can remove the full stop and put in a semicolon and it will still make sense. You
could also use a semicolon in the place of a connective such as and.
Semicolons should also be used to join two sentences that are either, linked together
or if you are trying to show a real comparison.
Don’t forget to change your capital letter at the beginning of the next sentence
when you add your semicolon.
The stars shone brightly in the sky; the sky was a dark, inky blue.
Hazard: Never use a semicolon with a conjunction (but, so, or, nor, for,
yet – save that for your comma)
Use a semi colon as a super-comma
You can also use a semicolon to create a list where you need to use a comma in a
different capacity, for example when you need to use a comma to separate two
places – I travelled to London, England; New York, USA; Paris, France; and Rome,
Italy.
Use a semi colon for a super sentence
You can extend the skills from the first box and join two complex sentences
together.
Dashing through the rain, the cloaked man slipped on the shimmering paving stone.
The silver car darted by, splashing the man as he ran hurriedly. Turns into...
Dashing through the rain, the cloaked man slipped on the shimmering paving stone;
the silver car darted by, splashing the man as he ran hurriedly.
Using the rules about semicolons on the previous
page, write a short story using the items below and all different
styles of semicolon.
A broken watch
An aerobics class
A small lie
A campfire
Word (Adjective)
Letter
O
Definition
Sentence (using your word):
Synonyms
Antonyms
Word (Adjective)
Letter
P
Definition
Sentence (using your word):
Synonyms
Antonyms
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Reading comprehension : Read the extract and
answer the questions in as much detail as possible.
Driving around the country now, I still see things that will remind me of
Hailsham. I might pass the corner of a misty field, or see part of a large house in the
distance as I come down the side of the valley, even a particular arrangement of poplar
trees up on a hillside, and I’ll think: ‘Maybe that’s it! I’ve found it! This actually is
Hailsham!’ Then I see it’s impossible and I go on driving, my thoughts drifting on
elsewhere. In particular, there are those pavilions. I spot them all over the country,
standing on the far side of the playing fields, little white prefab buildings with a row of
windows unnaturally high up, tucked almost under the eaves. I think they built a whole
lot like that in the fifties and sixties, which is probably when ours was put up. If i drive
past one I keep looking over to it for as long as possible, and one day I’ll crash the car
like that, but I keep doing it. Not long ago I was driving through an empty stretch of
Worcestershire and saw one beside a cricket ground so like ours at Hailsham I actually
turned the car around and went back for a second look.
We loved our sports pavilion, maybe because it reminded us of those sweet
little cottages people always had in picture books when we were young. I can remember
us back in the Juniors, pleading with the guardians to hold the next lesson in the pavilion
instead of the usual room. Then by the time we were in Senior 2 when we were twelve,
going on thirteen – the pavilion had become the place to hide out with your best friends
when you wanted to get away from the rest of Hailsham.
The pavilion was big enough to take two separate groups without them
bothering each other – in the summer, a third group could hang about on the veranda.
But ideally you and your friends wanted the place just to yourselves, so there was often
jockeying and arguing. The guardians were always telling us to be civilised about it, but
in practice, you needed to have some strong personalities in your group to stand a
chance of getting the pavilion during a break or free period. I wasn’t exactly the wilting
type myself, but I suppose it was really because of Ruth we got in there as often as we
did.
Usually we just spread ourselves around the chairs and benches – there’d
be five of use, six if Jenny B. Came along – and had a good gossip. There was a kind of
conversation that could happen when you were hidden away in the pavilion; we might
discuss something that was worrying us, or we might end up screaming with laughter, or
in a furious row. Mostly, it was a way to unwind for a while with your closest friends.
On the particular afternoon I’m now thinking of, we were standing up on
stools and benches, crowding around the North Playing Field where about a dozen boys
from our year and Senior 3 had gathered to play football . There was a bright sunshine,
but it must have been raining earlier that day because I can remember how the sun was
glinting on the muddy surface of the grass.
someone said we shouldn’t be so obvious about watching, but we hardly
moved back at all. The Ruth said: ‘He doesn’t suspect a thing. Look at him. He really
doesn’t suspect a thing.’
When she said this, I looked at her and searched for signs of disapproval about
what the boys were going to do to Tommy. But the next second Ruth gave a little laugh
and said: ‘The idiot!’
uestions
1.
Kathy is the narrator. How is she portrayed in this opening? How
do we know this?
2.
What do you think the pavilion symbolises and why?
3.
Who do you think the ‘guardians’ are? Explain your ideas.
4.
What do you think ‘Hailsham’ is? Explain your answer.
5.
How do you think Ruth is portrayed? How do we know this?
6.
The story is in first person, what do you think the importance of
doing this is?
7.
We learn a lot about Kathy’s past, why do you think this is
important?
Section three: Past, present, future
To be completed by:
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What do I need to complete over the next two weeks?
Spelling test 3
Complete the re-tweet task
Revise past, present and future tenses; and
singular and plural.
Complete task 1 on The Twits
Complete the extended writing task on The Twits
New vocabulary Q and R
Read and answer the questions on Pride and
Prejudice
Self Assessment: What do I still need to practise from this section?
Spelling test 3
You will be tested on your spellings in every
literacy lesson.
You are expected to get at least 17/20 right each time. If you do not manage this
you will need to re-take the test at another time.
Read
Clause
Comparison
Conjunction
Consonant
Commonly misspelt words
Dialogue
Exclamation
Expression
Figurative
Imagery
Metaphor
Narrative
Paragraph
Plural
Preposition
Topic specific words
Resolution
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Past tense
Present tense
Future tense
We use the past
tense to talk about
things that have
already happened.
We use the present
tense to talk about
things that are
happening now.
We use the future
tense to talk about
things that are
going to happen.
Last term we talked about different
tenses and plural and singular words –
this term we are going to combine
these and talk about when and how to
use the verb to be.
Key:
Past tense
Present tense
Single
Future tense
Plural
(Talking about one person)
(Talking about two or more people)
I am
I was
We are
We were
You are
You were
You are
You were
He is
He was
They are
They were
She is
She was
It is
It was
All of the present tense starters can be converted into future tense
depending on the auxiliary verb (see your first booklet) that you choose
to follow the main verb.
Example
I am having a great day at the funfair.
I am going to have a great day at the funfair.
An extract from The Twits by Roald Dahl.
Task 1: Circle the correct single or plural.
The Twits is/are nasty. Mr Twit is/are hairy and Mrs Twit is/are ugly.
They is/are the most horrible people you will ever read about. Mr Twit
and Mrs Twit is/are always thinking of nasty tricks to play on each other.
When Mrs Twit was/were angry, she gave Mr Twit worms to eat. He
didn’t know that there was/were worms in his dinner. He thought that he
was/were eating spaghetti. He wondered why his dinner was moving.
Task 2: Write the next part of the story about The Twits and their terrible, nasty
tricks.
Be sure to include all of the sentence starters here. This will mean you have to use
more than one paragraph to show a change in time.
Single
Plural
I am
I was
We are
We were
You are
You were
You are
You were
He is
He was
They are
They were
She is
She was
It is
It was
All of the present tense starters can be converted into future tense depending on
the auxiliary verb (see your first booklet) that you choose to follow the main verb.
Word (Adjective)
Letter
Q
Definition
Sentence (using your word):
Synonyms
Antonyms
Word (Adjective)
Letter
R
Definition
Sentence (using your word):
Synonyms
Antonyms
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Reading comprehension : Read the extract and
answer the questions in as much detail as possible.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune
must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a
neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that
he is considered the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.
"My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield
Park is let at last?"
Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.
"But it is," returned she; "for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about
it."
Mr. Bennet made no answer.
"Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
"You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it."
This was invitation enough.
"Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young
man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a
chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed
with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and
some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week."
"What is his name?"
"Bingley."
"Is he married or single?”
"Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a
year. What a fine thing for our girls!"
"How so? How can it affect them?"
"My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know
that I am thinking of his marrying one of them."
"Is that his design in settling here?"
"Design! Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with
one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes."
"I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by
themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of
them, Mr. Bingley may like you the best of the party.“
"My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not
pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters,
she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty."
"In such cases, a woman has not often much beauty to think of."
"But, my dear, you must indeed go and see Mr. Bingley when he comes into the
neighbourhood."
"It is more than I engage for, I assure you."
"But consider your daughters. Only think what an establishment it would be for one of
them. Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined to go, merely on that account, for in
general, you know, they visit no newcomers. Indeed you must go, for it will be
impossible for us to visit him if you do not."
"You are over-scrupulous, surely. I dare say Mr. Bingley will be very glad to see you; and
I will send a few lines by you to assure him of my hearty consent to his marrying
whichever he chooses of the girls; though I must throw in a good word for my little
Lizzy."
"I desire you will do no such thing. Lizzy is not a bit better than the others; and I am
sure she is not half as handsome as Jane, nor half as good-humoured as Lydia. But you
are always giving her the preference."
uestions:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
How is Mrs Bennett portrayed when we first meet her in Pride and
Prejudice?
How is Mr Bennett portrayed at the beginning of the novel?
What does the opening tell us about life in 19th Century England?
Even though we do not meet Lizzie, what relationship does she have
with her parents?
What is the role of a single man in 19th century England? How do we
know this?
Discuss the following point and explain why you agree or
disagree:
Men and women have vastly different roles in today’s society in
comparison to the men and women in Pride and Prejudice.
Spelling test time
Test 2
Test 3
Topic specific words
Commonly misspelt words
Test 1
Total:
/20
Total:
/20
Total:
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Choose your words wisely!
Relevant
Interesting
Ambitious